In the updated survey, we found that there are more ASEAN-positive attitudes region-wide, but there are also increases in ASEAN-ambivalent attitudes at country-level in some ASEAN members. Young people’s priorities for important aspects of regional integration have also shifted away from economic cooperation to tourism and development cooperation. New questions in the latest survey also allow us to demonstrate the descriptive vocabulary and cognitive maps students hold for the region and its nations.
This book details the key findings of the updated survey compared to the earlier survey. These include nation-by-nation results and a summary of region-wide trends, as well as what they suggest for the prospects of ASEAN integration beyond 2015. These are assessed in a chapter providing broad recommendations for policymakers and educators in the ASEAN member states.
• Eric C. Thompson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
• Chulanee Thianthai is a tenure track Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.
• Moe Thuzar is Lead Researcher (socio-cultural) at the ASEAN Studies Centre (ASC) at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.